The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1887-05-21
FARM NOTES.

Keep accurate accounts of your deal
ings.
Keep bees and increase the yield of
small fruits.
Small collars makes ballxy hors and
large ones sore breasts.
Burn the weeds now, and as far as
possible without moving them.
Beekeeping is profitable industry to
those who are adapted to and thorough
ly understand the business.
1t pays to manure the cabbage land
literally. The more manure applied,
the better crop may be expected.
Study what yourself and the crops
you grow need, and then, as best you
can, feed SO as to make special manures
to meet the demand.
Grapes grown on trees are free from
disease and yield plentifully. Plant
them a rod away from large trees aud
train them up TO limbs and they will
soon run through the trees.
The best way to use bone for imme-
diate effect is TO keep a barrel oflye on
hand and put in this all bones. Soon
phosphate of potash will be found,
which is one of the best fertilizers.
Now that spring is upon US; look out
for dampness. If the floor of the poul-
try house is not perfectly dry, look out
for Group. Board it over and cover it
with dirt and ashes. Keep an eye on
the chicks. Keep them perfectly dry.
Road work should be done in spring,
the earlier the better. Soft earth will
pack hard if drawn in while wet in
spring but if left until summer or
autumn ii will become mud after every
rain, because it does not get settled to
that compact condition necessary to
shed water.
Ii you want some Strawberries, the
first of May is the best time for setting
the plants. If set early and well they
will bear a small crop this year. Select
land as clean of weeds as any YOU have,
that which is naturally rich or made so
with vegetable manure. Animal and
mineral manures are not good for the
strawberry.
The proper covering of seeds, after
they have been deposited in the drill
or row, has much to do with the sue
cess of the crop. If in covering, the
seeds are buried so deep that the germ,
the little plant within the seed, cannot
reach the surface, il dies. Though the
seed may have been perfectley good,
there will be no crop.
In sowing mixed grasses for hay ref
erence must be had TO their periods of
ripening; they must be ready for the
mower at the same time. Red clover
and orchard grass do well together in
this respect. Tall meadow oat grass
also ripens at the same time as the
above, and may be advantageously adj
ded to them.
If we We're setting large patch of
Strawberries, we would set them in
rows three feet apart each way, and
tend them the first season with horse
and cultivator. They will be thick
enough the second year, and YOU save
a great many plants and any amount of
! hoeing by having them 50 wide as TO
tend with horse and cultivator.
Much depends upon the suitable
| plowing of the garden, 50 that we can
| take care of it with as little trouble as
! possible, and so that the early crops
| may be followed by late crops upon
/ the same land. The market gardeners
/ know how to do this, and get two crops
| from nearly all their land, and some
| times even three in season. There is
no good reason why their methods can
/ not be copied much more than they
| are in kitchen gardens.
F'irming or pressing the soil closely
/ about seeds of all kinds is point that
I Peter Henderson renews each year with
/ ever increasing emphasis. This firm
! ing is more important the dryer the
1
seed come up quicker, but the plants
will keep stronger throughout the
whole season, that is, provided the sea-
son proves dry one. Failure TO firm
/ seeds, Mr.. Henderson thinks, is at the
bottom of many failures that cost mill
lions yearly.
More harm is done to public and pri-
vate roads about this time of year tnan
/ at any other time. The water from the
/ melting SHOWS and heavy showers car
ries away the soft dirt and leaves bare
/ stones and deep cutters. However, if
| each farmer would take little pains he
! could prevent much of the damage done
/ to roads i'm this way. Take hoe and
/ go out and turn the drainage from your
barn yard and roads into the medows.
/ In a half-day's work you will save
| more road than You could make in
week; and at the same time YOU will
| be furnishing your grass land with a
| valuable fertilizer that would other
wise be lost in the neighhoring streams
1 and brooks.